Extreme Makeover: Forclosure Edition

[Moose_Thompson]

That's what is so fucked. A family really has to be down and out to get on the show. These parents are just teaching their kids how to stay behind.

[admiral]

I remember seeing somewhere an ABC internal memo asking their local affiliates for help in finding new families for the show. It was crazy as it laid out rules as to finding the most fucked up families. That was when I stopped watching the show. It felt weird knowing that they were looking for certain things.

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[Choppie]

Well hell! Being the nice guy that I am, if one of you guys wants a new home I can "stage" a home invasion that involves a "hate crime" so you can get on the show.

[Moose_Thompson]

There are 17 kids in America that cannot feel physical pain...they must be like Superboy at school.

Oh, and sign me up for a home invasion/hate crime.

[Frothy Afterbirth]

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I always wondered how in the hell Extreme Makeover recipients or anyone who wins a new grandiose house on the Home & Garden Channel contest can afford the property tax and any utility expenses for such large abodes.

[jizzay]

It's not the first home they built that has had this problem. I remember a few years back one was sold due to the new owners being unable to pay the taxes on it. They had like 13 kids or something close to it.

[jizzay]

In an e-mail sent March 10, 2006, from an ABC employee to network affiliates, the program's casting agent details the exact kind of tragedies and rare illnesses being sought. [5]

Five children filed a lawsuit against ABC after they were evicted by a family that had taken them in before the show came to renovate the family's house. The five kids "say that the producers took advantage of the family’s hard-luck story and promised them new cars and other prizes to persuade them to participate in the program," according to the LA Times.[6] On July 17, 2007, Judge Paul Gutman ruled against the siblings stating that the plaintiffs failed to prove their case.



Questions arose when Theresa "Momi" Akana was picked for the Extreme Makeover program for Hawaii. The Honolulu Advertiser investigated their tax records and found out that both she and her husband made over $100,000 each in salary. Denise Cramsey, the executive producer of the show, responded with "I think Momi certainly fits the bill." She defended the pick, stating that they look beyond financial situation, and look into other factors, including family plight and contributions to the community.

[jizzay]

The show has been criticized for glorifying excessive suburban lifestyles, such as in a Mother Jones article that questioned giving a 6-bedroom, 7-bath, 7-television house to a family of 4 in Kingston, WA.

[BlackCrypt]

Damn, now I am gonna have to research how the family close to here is doing.

I bet $10 they are going to shit. They had their home built in a run down area about 2 years ago, and they were trailer park trash through and through!

[jizzay]

There was one here earlier this year for this blind kid who played trumpet for U of L. Sweet kid and doesn't play to his handicap at all. Last I heard they are doing great. It's a nice house.